WEBVTT - TRUMP JUST LOST THE TARIFF WAR - 4.10.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:25.155 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Let's 0:00:25.275 --> 0:00:30.115 face this. Trump has already lost the tariff wars he 0:00:30.195 --> 0:00:36.555 finally claimed he paused yesterday without really pausing them already lost. 0:00:37.075 --> 0:00:41.955 Only took him eight days, eight days from liberation day 0:00:42.475 --> 0:00:45.195 to a day, when in any other war, in any 0:00:45.235 --> 0:00:49.675 other country, literal or figurative, he would have been deposed 0:00:49.715 --> 0:00:52.875 by now. And never mind how much you and I 0:00:52.955 --> 0:00:56.355 think he's crazy. A high priced advisor to macro fund 0:00:56.435 --> 0:00:59.555 manager says, quote, A few of them have quietly wondered 0:00:59.555 --> 0:01:06.315 if the president might be insane unquote. And after Wall 0:01:06.315 --> 0:01:08.195 Street came off the ledge and got back to where 0:01:08.195 --> 0:01:13.795 it was six days ago, only what three trillion lost 0:01:13.835 --> 0:01:17.355 four to seven? You lose track after a while. Trump 0:01:17.635 --> 0:01:22.715 declared victory up twenty five hundred points. Nobody has ever 0:01:22.755 --> 0:01:25.595 heard of it. Gotta be a record because he cannot 0:01:25.755 --> 0:01:29.075 admit he made a mistake ever. If he did, his 0:01:29.115 --> 0:01:32.755 head would fall off, and his approval numbers have cratered. 0:01:32.915 --> 0:01:37.155 He's underwater by an average of six points last Wednesday. 0:01:37.195 --> 0:01:39.955 It was an average of two points. Since the election, 0:01:40.635 --> 0:01:43.955 He's lost twenty points among those over age sixty five, 0:01:44.275 --> 0:01:49.435 He's lost fifty points among those underage thirty. And he's 0:01:49.515 --> 0:01:54.795 still yesterday raised the tariffs on the Chinese again to 0:01:54.835 --> 0:01:59.515 one hundred and twenty five percent, because he's mad at them, 0:01:59.875 --> 0:02:03.995 because they, of course are winning this war, because the 0:02:04.075 --> 0:02:08.515 Chinese aren't not negotiating. The Chinese don't negotiate the Chinese 0:02:08.635 --> 0:02:12.075 are as they have been for centuries, for millennia. The 0:02:12.155 --> 0:02:17.835 Chinese are waiting for their opponents to die. The Chinese 0:02:17.875 --> 0:02:21.115 are apparently dumping our ten year treasuries, driving up our debt, 0:02:21.355 --> 0:02:25.835 and they've opened trading partnership negotiations with the head of 0:02:25.915 --> 0:02:31.075 the European Union. Surprise. And for all the claims about 0:02:31.115 --> 0:02:36.435 pausing the tariffs, Trump says a universal ten percent tariff 0:02:36.635 --> 0:02:41.835 will be maintained on everybody. That's not a pause. Oh 0:02:41.875 --> 0:02:46.435 and the very stable Genius began the day in full panic. 0:02:46.875 --> 0:02:50.235 Between seven forty six and nine thirty seven yesterday morning, 0:02:50.395 --> 0:02:52.755 he made sure anybody who had not realized that it 0:02:53.155 --> 0:02:57.675 and he were in freefall, he made sure they realized 0:02:57.715 --> 0:03:02.155 we're all in freefall. First one, this is a great 0:03:02.195 --> 0:03:04.875 time to move your company into the United States of America, 0:03:04.955 --> 0:03:07.635 like Apple and so many others. In record numbers, are 0:03:07.675 --> 0:03:12.795 doing zero tariffs and almost immediate electrical energy hookups and approvals, 0:03:12.995 --> 0:03:18.475 no environmental delays. Don't wait, do it now? Free balloons 0:03:18.515 --> 0:03:23.715 for the kiddies a few minutes later, make America great again. 0:03:24.475 --> 0:03:27.315 After that, Republicans, it is more important now than ever 0:03:27.395 --> 0:03:30.355 that we passed the one big beautiful bill. The USA 0:03:30.435 --> 0:03:34.555 will soar like never before the next one. It is 0:03:34.595 --> 0:03:37.475 imperative that Republicans in the House past the tax cut bill. 0:03:37.635 --> 0:03:43.675 Now our country will boom. Yeah, actually we've we've been 0:03:43.795 --> 0:03:48.795 booming all the destruction in Mayhem. That's the sound you 0:03:48.835 --> 0:03:51.915 were hearing, was the boom fixing trade in tariffs is 0:03:51.955 --> 0:03:55.035 a good thing. Jamie Diamond, JP Morgan Chase chairman and 0:03:55.115 --> 0:04:00.475 CEO on Maria B Show. Did he call Maria Bartiromo 0:04:00.595 --> 0:04:09.115 a B be cool? Capitals? Be cool? He wrote in 0:04:09.235 --> 0:04:16.235 number six, be cool. Hello, my fellow teenagers, be cool. 0:04:16.275 --> 0:04:18.315 Everything is going to work out well. The USA will 0:04:18.315 --> 0:04:21.395 be bigger and better than ever before. And the last one, 0:04:21.915 --> 0:04:29.515 this is a great time to buy DJT. You're making 0:04:29.555 --> 0:04:33.595 Herbert Hoover look like Warren Buffett. Here chauncey and when 0:04:33.715 --> 0:04:38.075 all that didn't work, he paused, kind of the tariffs 0:04:38.635 --> 0:04:43.235 while his Trade Rep Jamison Greer was testifying to Ways 0:04:43.275 --> 0:04:47.155 and Means. Middle of his goddamn testimony, Greer had already 0:04:47.155 --> 0:04:50.075 spent four hours looking like an idiot bullshitter. When the 0:04:50.155 --> 0:04:53.795 idiot bullshit he was defending was completely changed, he found 0:04:53.835 --> 0:04:57.635 out on his phone. Then he looked like an uninformed, 0:04:57.675 --> 0:05:02.595 idiot bullshitter. I was waiting for mister Chairman. I'd like 0:05:02.675 --> 0:05:09.635 to amend my remarks. Which ones missed your witness, all 0:05:09.675 --> 0:05:14.595 of them. But the tariffs were not reduced at all 0:05:14.675 --> 0:05:18.075 against China. They were increased, and not apparently the next 0:05:18.155 --> 0:05:21.955 tariffs they're not being reduced the ones against the pharmaceutical industry. 0:05:21.995 --> 0:05:26.555 Because when you pissed away almost all of your presidential 0:05:26.595 --> 0:05:30.795 support in eight days, the first thing you want to 0:05:30.795 --> 0:05:33.475 do then is drive up everybody's cost at the pharmacy counter. 0:05:34.715 --> 0:05:38.435 And nobody told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, the guy who 0:05:38.515 --> 0:05:41.835 looks like a foppish character played by the actor Barry Bostwick. 0:05:42.235 --> 0:05:45.395 Nobody told him not to hint at the next next 0:05:45.435 --> 0:05:55.035 tariff quote. It's main streets, turn main street, clothing stores, restaurants, coffee, water, 0:05:55.395 --> 0:05:58.555 the street traffic of American commerce, kill it as quickly 0:05:58.595 --> 0:06:03.875 as possible. Remind people that when those prices double, you know, 0:06:03.955 --> 0:06:07.115 you can make your own own coffee at home, and 0:06:07.155 --> 0:06:10.635 you can buy one plastic bottle and refill it with 0:06:10.715 --> 0:06:13.795 tap water for the rest of your life. Did you 0:06:13.835 --> 0:06:16.115 know that we used to do it that way. Make 0:06:16.195 --> 0:06:19.275 it clear to them that to Trump, America does not 0:06:19.395 --> 0:06:23.195 have people in it, only companies, and that the point 0:06:23.235 --> 0:06:27.915 of Trump's America is to charge Americans more for everything. 0:06:29.675 --> 0:06:37.475 Citizens are a mere infestation in corporate land. The Footwear 0:06:37.515 --> 0:06:41.555 Distributors and Retailers of America Association now says that if 0:06:41.635 --> 0:06:46.035 running shoes now made in China or Vietnam that now 0:06:46.075 --> 0:06:49.515 cost you one hundred dollars are instead going to be 0:06:49.595 --> 0:06:54.115 made here, they will cost you three or four hundred dollars. 0:06:55.355 --> 0:06:59.595 That is not changing, that was not paused. If you 0:06:59.715 --> 0:07:02.475 drive a car, I'll tear if the street. If you 0:07:02.555 --> 0:07:05.155 try to sit, I'll tear if your seat. If you 0:07:05.195 --> 0:07:08.155 get too cold, I'll tariff the heat. If you take 0:07:08.195 --> 0:07:14.755 a walk, I'll tariff your feet. Sorry, George Harrison, it 0:07:14.875 --> 0:07:18.915 is so bad, so bad that even the New York 0:07:18.995 --> 0:07:21.395 both sides as times, has begun to sit up and 0:07:21.435 --> 0:07:25.715 take notice, right next to the surprisingly timely and relevant 0:07:25.915 --> 0:07:29.275 investigative piece for which it expects to receive the next pulletzer. 0:07:30.115 --> 0:07:32.755 Seven ways to turn a can of tuna into lunch 0:07:32.875 --> 0:07:37.835 or even dinner was analysis by David Sanger about this 0:07:37.955 --> 0:07:41.955 Trump policy. Even though the word policy implies there's some 0:07:42.195 --> 0:07:45.835 plan or just some similarity from one hour's actions to 0:07:45.915 --> 0:07:50.755 the next, the quote burn it down first, figure out 0:07:50.755 --> 0:07:53.955 the consequence's later recklessness. The costs of that approach are 0:07:53.995 --> 0:07:57.195 now becoming clear. That administration officials knew the markets would 0:07:57.235 --> 0:08:00.035 dive and other nations would retaliate when Trump announced his 0:08:00.115 --> 0:08:04.515 long promised reciprocal tariffs. But when pressed, several senior officials 0:08:04.515 --> 0:08:07.235 can seated that they had spent only a few days 0:08:07.275 --> 0:08:11.715 considering how the economic earthquake might have second order effects. 0:08:13.715 --> 0:08:17.035 This was before they were trying to fish all the 0:08:17.115 --> 0:08:20.595 victims out of the water after Trump deliberately steered into 0:08:20.675 --> 0:08:25.035 the reherreic Iceberg, and most of them had already drowned, 0:08:25.555 --> 0:08:29.235 but some didn't. So Peter Navarro went on Fox Pravda 0:08:29.355 --> 0:08:31.995 Tasks and announced, this is one of the greatest days 0:08:32.035 --> 0:08:37.355 in American economic history. Yes, Sir Shrimpy, just like the 0:08:37.435 --> 0:08:40.915 day after Black Thursday in nineteen twenty nine. I mean, 0:08:40.915 --> 0:08:43.955 there wasn't also a Black Friday that was also one 0:08:43.995 --> 0:08:47.515 of the greatest days in American economic history, wasn't it? Uh? 0:08:47.555 --> 0:08:52.955 Wasn't it all right? The too long didn't listen version 0:08:53.115 --> 0:08:56.675 to all this, the president might be insane. Let me 0:08:56.715 --> 0:08:59.635 circle back to that Wall Street big roller researchery. He 0:08:59.755 --> 0:09:03.435 is Thomas E. Lee, co founder, head of research at 0:09:03.595 --> 0:09:09.515 FS insight by Fundstrat. Because the big money spends none 0:09:09.555 --> 0:09:13.035 of it on good company names. My old colleague Carl 0:09:13.075 --> 0:09:16.795 Kintonia pulled this for mister Lee's newsletter. In the last 0:09:16.795 --> 0:09:20.555 few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers, 0:09:20.795 --> 0:09:22.715 and their concern is that the White House is not 0:09:22.835 --> 0:09:29.515 acting rationally, but rather on ideology. Nothing gets past the billionaire, 0:09:30.315 --> 0:09:33.315 and some even fear that this may not even be ideology. 0:09:33.475 --> 0:09:40.635 A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane. 0:09:43.075 --> 0:09:47.955 I wrote this in twenty sixteen, Oh, big piecebo, could 0:09:48.035 --> 0:09:52.395 the president pass its sanity test? At least it's nice 0:09:52.395 --> 0:09:57.635 to know we're not alone in our assessment for all 0:09:57.715 --> 0:10:04.915 the rebounding yesterday. Hey, we're hemorrhaging less there's a problemigger 0:10:04.955 --> 0:10:08.435 than all the positives put together. This is from Stephen McDonald, 0:10:08.515 --> 0:10:12.275 the BBC's man in China, a sharp Australian who was 0:10:12.315 --> 0:10:15.035 about a month ahead of every other Western correspondent on 0:10:15.035 --> 0:10:16.715 that little story coming out of there a few years 0:10:16.755 --> 0:10:21.435 ago called COVID quoting him lightest message from beijingg via 0:10:21.515 --> 0:10:24.075 a state media account. Well that's the way he talks, 0:10:24.435 --> 0:10:28.235 linked to China's central television. Washington is trying to defeat 0:10:28.275 --> 0:10:31.035 countries one by one, but the China will back the 0:10:31.155 --> 0:10:34.355 multilateral trade system. It says, don't go to Trump with 0:10:34.395 --> 0:10:37.835 your begging bowl. It's what he wants to steamroll you. 0:10:38.355 --> 0:10:41.275 The message that Trump is lining up countries to steamroll 0:10:41.355 --> 0:10:43.955 of them one at a time could resonate well in 0:10:43.995 --> 0:10:48.115 the region. Developing countries like Cambodia, Laos in Vietnam are 0:10:48.155 --> 0:10:52.275 all being hit hard by his tariffs. Now Xijinping calling 0:10:52.355 --> 0:10:59.595 for increased supply chain cooperation with them unquote. The problem 0:10:59.675 --> 0:11:02.915 for US financial laymen is that Trump may now pretend 0:11:03.035 --> 0:11:06.635 it's all better, and much of Wall Street may to. Certainly, 0:11:06.795 --> 0:11:11.155 yesterday's numbers suggested that we're only losing this ball game 0:11:11.195 --> 0:11:15.875 one hundred and thirty two to sixty one now, but 0:11:16.035 --> 0:11:20.995 China is now out to kill us financially, and they're 0:11:21.035 --> 0:11:24.995 doing it. And every one of our allies whom Trump 0:11:25.035 --> 0:11:29.755 threatened with a gun now realizes that was just his finger. 0:11:29.835 --> 0:11:35.635 He was pointing, concealing it in his pocket, and he's 0:11:35.675 --> 0:11:43.275 got really puny, tiny fingers and they're not loaded, and 0:11:44.435 --> 0:12:14.755 they're impotent. Now the subtext here that most people did 0:12:14.795 --> 0:12:17.315 not notice because Wall Street was too busy re enacting 0:12:17.395 --> 0:12:20.555 nineteen twenty nine. Is there more to this than sheer 0:12:20.555 --> 0:12:25.315 insanity and in confidence? Did Trump crash the stock market 0:12:25.355 --> 0:12:31.595 deliberately as he boasted online semi trollingly, so that his 0:12:31.755 --> 0:12:37.475 insiders could make money. Politico inadvertently fed this narrative. Its 0:12:37.595 --> 0:12:41.635 chief stenographer and seapack part time spokesmodel, Dash of Burns 0:12:41.995 --> 0:12:45.875 drank the whole pitcher of kool aid on Tuesday. Quote 0:12:46.355 --> 0:12:49.595 inside the White House itself, the outlook is downright rosie 0:12:49.635 --> 0:12:53.995 among a select group of Trump's inner circle. Ebuliant is 0:12:54.035 --> 0:12:57.115 how one insider close to the administration described the mood 0:12:57.115 --> 0:13:00.395 in the West Wing. Nobody is fearful. They knew this 0:13:00.515 --> 0:13:03.675 stock market reaction was coming. They feel like everything is 0:13:03.715 --> 0:13:10.275 going according to If only we'd remembered to write a plan. 0:13:12.555 --> 0:13:17.275 The key part of that quote, they knew this stock 0:13:17.715 --> 0:13:24.235 market reaction was coming. They feel like everything is going 0:13:24.435 --> 0:13:29.755 according to plan. Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC said, there 0:13:29.795 --> 0:13:32.755 was real potential that quote. It would not shock me 0:13:32.875 --> 0:13:34.435 if we were to find out that a whole bunch 0:13:34.435 --> 0:13:37.595 of people who work in Washington as our elected leaders, 0:13:37.915 --> 0:13:41.235 ultimately sold stocks last week were potentially worse than that 0:13:41.875 --> 0:13:45.715 shorted the market. But how could we ever find something 0:13:45.795 --> 0:13:50.835 like that out? Oh, Marjorie stupid Green? Here it is 0:13:51.115 --> 0:13:56.755 on a website called sludge. Readsludge dot com investigative journalism 0:13:56.835 --> 0:14:01.315 on Money in Politics, quoting them, Representative Marjorie Taylor Green 0:14:02.115 --> 0:14:04.555 are for GA and we know what the R stands for. 0:14:04.915 --> 0:14:08.795 A close ally of President Trump invested as much as 0:14:08.835 --> 0:14:14.395 seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in US Treasury bonds 0:14:14.435 --> 0:14:18.115 from mid to late March, according to transaction disclosures reviewed 0:14:18.115 --> 0:14:22.075 by Sludge. The purchases made in three transactions between March 0:14:22.115 --> 0:14:25.475 seventeen and March twenty five aligned with her vocal support 0:14:25.635 --> 0:14:30.955 for Trump's recently imposed tariffs. How could we have ever 0:14:31.075 --> 0:14:31.595 found out? 0:14:31.755 --> 0:14:32.155 All right? 0:14:32.355 --> 0:14:35.915 It's Marjorie stupid Green. I knew there was grift here. 0:14:37.435 --> 0:14:42.795 That's not real insight. There's grift everything in everywhere. Anything 0:14:42.875 --> 0:14:47.115 he does is grift. And I knew it as soon 0:14:47.155 --> 0:14:51.315 as I heard Rand Paul as the sole voice of 0:14:51.355 --> 0:14:55.435 reason the teriff's debate. He said, the whole tariff debate 0:14:55.515 --> 0:14:58.115 is so fundamentally backwards, an upside down. It's based on 0:14:58.155 --> 0:15:00.955 a fallacy. And the fallacy is this, that's somehow in 0:15:00.995 --> 0:15:04.915 a trade someone must lose that somehow when you raid 0:15:05.035 --> 0:15:09.195 with someone, someone is taking advantage of you. I have 0:15:09.235 --> 0:15:15.755 a trade deficit with my grocery store. The billionaire Ken 0:15:15.835 --> 0:15:19.595 Langone attacked Trump. The tariff on Vietnam was bullshit. According 0:15:19.595 --> 0:15:24.475 to Langon, Musk attacked Navaro. Navaro attacked Musk. Scott Besson's mentor, 0:15:24.515 --> 0:15:28.155 a billionaire named drucken Miller, posted, I do not support 0:15:28.195 --> 0:15:32.235 tariff succeeding ten percent. Incidentally, I think they're going to 0:15:32.275 --> 0:15:35.355 make besson't take the fall here. He just looks like 0:15:35.395 --> 0:15:37.835 the guy who takes the fall. But the all time 0:15:37.995 --> 0:15:41.875 Lulu quote was this one. The tariffs are quote more 0:15:41.955 --> 0:15:45.235 severe than I would have expected, particularly the way it 0:15:45.355 --> 0:15:49.555 is impacting Vietnam, China and Cambodi is more extreme than 0:15:49.555 --> 0:15:55.835 I would have thought. That was from Wilbur Ross. Wilbur Ross, 0:15:57.355 --> 0:16:02.355 the ancient Trump Commerce secretary. Last time, you know how 0:16:02.395 --> 0:16:15.235 old Wilbur Ross is two hundred and six. And of 0:16:15.235 --> 0:16:18.635 course this time Trump continues to have only the best people. 0:16:18.835 --> 0:16:23.115 The inflatable rubber raft known as Christy Nome has now 0:16:23.155 --> 0:16:28.155 been accompanied by the fascist stochastic terrorist influencer who smears liberals, 0:16:28.795 --> 0:16:31.795 and they gave her a dress up outfit two so 0:16:31.835 --> 0:16:35.035 she and the dog killer pretended to arrest criminals, even 0:16:35.075 --> 0:16:37.995 though a civilian can't really legally pretend to be part 0:16:38.035 --> 0:16:45.835 of homeland security. Then the Attorney General, Pam Blondie, I'm sorry, Bondi. 0:16:47.035 --> 0:16:50.635 Pam got backed into a corner by a reporter admitting 0:16:51.195 --> 0:16:54.795 that they had deported innocent people. And when they pointed 0:16:54.875 --> 0:16:56.995 this out to her, that she had been backed into 0:16:56.995 --> 0:17:00.235 a corner, she just walked away from the microphone because 0:17:01.115 --> 0:17:04.835 she is drowning in this job. And you probably he 0:17:04.835 --> 0:17:08.275 didn't hear this one, but one of Marco Rubio's bodyguards 0:17:08.275 --> 0:17:11.795 has been arrested in Belgium. This was at the end 0:17:11.795 --> 0:17:16.475 of last month. The Brussels Times reports Brussel's police took 0:17:16.515 --> 0:17:21.515 a Diplomatic Security Service shift supervisor don't say that five 0:17:21.515 --> 0:17:25.235 times fast into custody at the Hotel Amigo when they 0:17:25.275 --> 0:17:27.635 alleged he got violent with hotel staff because they would 0:17:27.635 --> 0:17:30.995 not reopen the bar after hours, which that night would 0:17:31.035 --> 0:17:36.355 have been at midnight. The embassy got him released. I 0:17:36.555 --> 0:17:42.155 smell the next head of the secret Service. Then there's 0:17:42.235 --> 0:17:48.435 Dan Bongino, new deputy director to the FBI director Popeye. 0:17:49.315 --> 0:17:53.315 More on the FBI director Cash Patel and his guest 0:17:53.355 --> 0:17:58.075 shot on Russian state television coming up in Worse Persons, 0:17:58.675 --> 0:18:02.795 But this is about his deputy, Bongino and the intelligence 0:18:02.795 --> 0:18:06.995 community's genuine shock that when the Bureau issued a message 0:18:07.035 --> 0:18:09.715 to its staff they call it a canvas, asking for 0:18:09.875 --> 0:18:13.675 volunteer agents to serve on his twenty four hour a 0:18:13.715 --> 0:18:17.755 day protective security detail. They asked for a total of 0:18:19.355 --> 0:18:24.715 twenty agents. They need twenty agents to protect this one skinny, 0:18:25.235 --> 0:18:29.755 useless guy, Like, what are eight of them at a 0:18:29.795 --> 0:18:32.715 time going to surround him on all sides as he 0:18:32.795 --> 0:18:37.155 walks down the hall. Actually that makes sense, that could 0:18:37.195 --> 0:18:39.875 explain it. They would then be able to make sure 0:18:39.875 --> 0:18:42.755 nobody gets close enough to confirm that Dan Bongino's hair 0:18:44.035 --> 0:18:49.075 is not his own. And last week, of all the 0:18:49.075 --> 0:18:52.155 things Trump doesn't understand, the thing he most doesn't understand 0:18:52.155 --> 0:18:54.795 the best is he's a fat old man who keeps 0:18:54.835 --> 0:18:57.115 forgetting to put bronzer on anything but his face, so 0:18:57.155 --> 0:19:00.075 his hands look like he's holding mashed potatoes, and who 0:19:00.075 --> 0:19:02.755 the other day managed to shape his hair into an 0:19:02.795 --> 0:19:07.435 almost perfect square so that he looked like the President 0:19:08.395 --> 0:19:13.835 of Minecraft. Trump, though, continues to make jokes about other 0:19:13.915 --> 0:19:21.595 people's faces, anybody else's face, anybody else in the world's face, 0:19:22.195 --> 0:19:25.355 eight billion, sixty two million faces in the world right now, 0:19:25.675 --> 0:19:29.795 and his would rank number eight billion, sixty two million. 0:19:30.195 --> 0:19:33.715 And he still says crap like this, Adam Shifty Shifts. 0:19:34.075 --> 0:19:37.835 Can you believe this guy? He's got the smallest neck 0:19:37.875 --> 0:19:38.795 I've ever seen. 0:19:40.755 --> 0:19:42.875 And the biggest. Said, we call them watermelon head. 0:19:43.475 --> 0:19:46.115 I say, how could that big, fat face. 0:19:46.355 --> 0:19:49.915 Stand on a neck that looked like this finger. Fortunately 0:19:49.995 --> 0:19:55.275 Trump has enough extra necks and chins to take care 0:19:55.315 --> 0:20:07.395 of Shift and the entire Senate for that matter, So 0:20:07.635 --> 0:20:10.275 I said, finally, but I did want to say goodbye 0:20:10.315 --> 0:20:15.315 first to Gretchen Whitmer, who Gavin Newsom to herself yesterday, first, 0:20:15.355 --> 0:20:17.875 the governor of Michigan came out in favor of tariffs, 0:20:18.995 --> 0:20:24.155 some tariffs anyway, on the day Trump would punt some tariffs. 0:20:24.915 --> 0:20:28.955 Trump signed more executive arders in the Oval yesterday for 0:20:29.235 --> 0:20:34.075 higher flow shower heads for prosecuting Conservative election monitor Chris 0:20:34.155 --> 0:20:39.715 Krebs about shipbuilding. There's some anti miles tailor stuff. I 0:20:39.755 --> 0:20:43.235 don't know, more tariffs maybe who knows and who's in 0:20:43.275 --> 0:20:46.235 the corner not smart enough to get out of the 0:20:46.235 --> 0:20:49.515 goddamned Oval office while all this is going on. Gretchen 0:20:49.555 --> 0:20:54.035 goddamned Whitmer. Honored to have Gretchen Whittmer from Michigan, the 0:20:54.075 --> 0:20:56.755 great state of Michigan. And she's been she's really done, 0:20:56.755 --> 0:21:03.555 an excellent job, very good person, that was Trump. Don't 0:21:03.595 --> 0:21:06.115 know what route you think you you are on politically, Governor. 0:21:06.755 --> 0:21:10.235 But whenever you get to your destination, say hi to 0:21:10.355 --> 0:21:14.355 Gavin Newsom when you get there, because he's done and 0:21:14.435 --> 0:21:18.275 you're done, because neither of you has learned the Howard 0:21:18.355 --> 0:21:24.395 Dean Rudy Giuliani rule. Do not start already running for president, 0:21:25.635 --> 0:21:31.395 especially if it involves compromising with the other side, whom 0:21:31.435 --> 0:21:37.155 everybody hates. Do not start already running for president four 0:21:37.235 --> 0:21:40.715 years from now until it's only like eighteen months from now. 0:21:41.995 --> 0:21:46.315 And also governor. If you buy one Trump Executive idiot order, 0:21:46.595 --> 0:21:52.115 you get the rest for free, and never ever get 0:21:52.115 --> 0:21:56.875 the endorsement of the worst leader in the history of 0:21:56.995 --> 0:22:06.795 the free world. Buy now, Gretchen. Also of interest here 0:22:06.795 --> 0:22:10.075 in an all new edition, watching Laura Ingram carrying all 0:22:10.115 --> 0:22:15.075 that water for Trump, still lying without pause even last night, 0:22:15.675 --> 0:22:19.435 as his Titanic goes to the bottom, Bob's back up 0:22:19.435 --> 0:22:22.635 to the top, then goes to the bottom again. This 0:22:22.755 --> 0:22:26.875 reminds me of my dates with her. You heard me 0:22:27.555 --> 0:22:32.435 because all of the liquid she drank NonStop, non stop. 0:22:32.795 --> 0:22:37.315 I was worried about the explosion risk, but usefully she 0:22:37.435 --> 0:22:43.635 explained the nascent prototype of the fascist media ecosphere, which 0:22:43.675 --> 0:22:46.955 I will repeat things I promised not to tell, and 0:22:47.035 --> 0:22:49.875 in this case things I'm surprised I survived. And more 0:22:49.915 --> 0:22:53.755 on cash Betel, Wayne Gretzky and the hockey writer moron 0:22:53.835 --> 0:22:57.915 who is defending them both. That's next. This is countdown 0:22:59.515 --> 0:23:01.475 George Crowing the pleasure to have you here. Thank you. 0:23:01.555 --> 0:23:03.475 This is the best news show ever. I told that 0:23:03.595 --> 0:23:05.515 to one of your producers, and I want you to 0:23:05.555 --> 0:23:08.315 know that I've seen them all and it's just for 0:23:08.395 --> 0:23:09.395 especially the first. 0:23:09.195 --> 0:23:10.075 Thirty five minutes. 0:23:10.155 --> 0:23:12.875 Thank you. So it's just unparalleled. I got bad news 0:23:12.875 --> 0:23:14.675 between you and I. We got six minutes to completely 0:23:14.715 --> 0:23:37.835 still that in my back. Yeah, that's okay. Still ahead 0:23:37.835 --> 0:23:41.235 in this edition to countdown. Well, I needed to bring 0:23:41.315 --> 0:23:43.635 George back here just for the moment because I needed 0:23:43.635 --> 0:23:45.395 to help today. I'm going to spare you the details 0:23:45.955 --> 0:23:49.755 actually good, but discerning regular listeners may have heard, may 0:23:49.875 --> 0:23:53.555 hear a roughness to my voice, a side effect of 0:23:53.595 --> 0:23:58.755 some heavy duty medication for a heavy duty gut problem. Gut, 0:23:58.915 --> 0:24:02.675 I hope not guts, but it's playing Jiminy ned with 0:24:02.795 --> 0:24:08.755 my stamina. So still ahead on countdown. I'll think of 0:24:08.995 --> 0:24:12.275 something first, believe it or not. There's still more new 0:24:12.315 --> 0:24:14.955 idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons 0:24:14.955 --> 0:24:18.235 and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other 0:24:19.115 --> 0:24:24.875 worst persons in the world. Here are the nominees. The 0:24:24.875 --> 0:24:29.755 Bronze worst. Joe Manchin, the former Senator and pretend Democrat 0:24:30.115 --> 0:24:34.475 from West Virginia. Joe has just revealed he's writing a book. 0:24:35.075 --> 0:24:39.715 It's called dead Center in Defense of common Sense. It's 0:24:39.755 --> 0:24:42.875 about his political accomplishments and a defense of his politics. 0:24:43.555 --> 0:24:49.275 What is it? Four pages long, preface by Kirsten Cinema, 0:24:49.435 --> 0:24:53.115 once sentence, I'm great. The best part is the cover 0:24:53.555 --> 0:24:57.635 of Joe Mansion dead Center in Defensive common Sense is 0:24:57.675 --> 0:25:02.955 a tight shot of Mansion's Joe thaismanesque face, but only 0:25:03.035 --> 0:25:07.155 half of his face. Seriously, it's a photograph of half 0:25:07.155 --> 0:25:11.955 of him only in terms of how you look at it, 0:25:12.235 --> 0:25:16.875 viewer left or viewer right, only the right half. Joe's photo, 0:25:17.555 --> 0:25:22.355 symbolizing the dead center of his politics, is actually a 0:25:22.355 --> 0:25:27.835 photo of the far right, only the far right, only 0:25:28.355 --> 0:25:34.715 his far right. Joe Manchin only on the far right 0:25:35.475 --> 0:25:38.955 kind of summarizes Joe Manchin, don't it? The runner up 0:25:38.955 --> 0:25:43.755 worser Marjorie's Stupid Green. First, I'll read her tweet, Then 0:25:43.915 --> 0:25:46.675 I'll read the caption of the screen shot she retweeted. 0:25:47.035 --> 0:25:51.995 Then i will read the screenshot she retweeted first from 0:25:52.075 --> 0:25:57.715 Marjorie's Stupid Green herself quote left always pays protest hears 0:25:57.755 --> 0:26:01.515 and here's the pray. Meanwhile, we never had to hire 0:26:01.515 --> 0:26:04.155 anyone to attendance support praise. He d dramp at his 0:26:04.275 --> 0:26:09.795 he rally, then an account called Wall Street Ape. So 0:26:09.835 --> 0:26:15.835 that's what a musk Bitcoin NFT confidence game account. Remember 0:26:15.995 --> 0:26:21.795 NFTs quote paid to protest positions are being posted on 0:26:21.835 --> 0:26:24.235 Craig's list. A huge amount of the new positions being 0:26:24.275 --> 0:26:31.355 posted everywhere are to protest cash paid. They've always lied. 0:26:31.875 --> 0:26:34.115 They used to be better at it than this. Here 0:26:34.235 --> 0:26:39.075 is the list, endorsed by Marjorie Stupid Green. Los Angeles 0:26:39.115 --> 0:26:43.995 hands Off Anti Trump Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid 0:26:44.275 --> 0:26:47.355 four days ago. Los Angeles hands Off Anti Trump Protest 0:26:47.435 --> 0:26:50.955 Merch Sales Team, cash paid four days ago. Los Angeles 0:26:50.955 --> 0:26:54.795 hands Off Anti Trump Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid 0:26:54.995 --> 0:26:59.915 five days ago, Central La sell protest and resistance products 0:26:59.915 --> 0:27:03.555 at protest rallies in your area. Sales at protest and 0:27:03.595 --> 0:27:07.275 resistance rallies days ago. Los Angeles hands Off Anti Trump 0:27:07.315 --> 0:27:15.075 Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid seven days ago. I'm 0:27:15.115 --> 0:27:18.635 assuming you have noticed by now what all of those 0:27:19.035 --> 0:27:23.835 will pay you to protest against Trump Craigslist ads actually 0:27:23.875 --> 0:27:27.035 have in common. Not one of them offers to pay 0:27:27.075 --> 0:27:31.435 you to protest against Trump. They are all trying to 0:27:31.595 --> 0:27:36.675 hire people to sell merchandise and products at the anti 0:27:36.715 --> 0:27:41.315 Trump protests, which I believe the fascists until I don't 0:27:41.315 --> 0:27:44.195 know they crashed the stock market the fascists used to 0:27:44.275 --> 0:27:52.475 praise as capitalism and bootstrapping and independent small businesses merchandise. 0:27:53.035 --> 0:27:55.995 They're not hiring protesters, They're hiring people to sell crap 0:27:56.075 --> 0:28:01.235 to the protesters. And Marjorie stupid Green missed that part. 0:28:03.395 --> 0:28:05.915 Plus there is a special ey to her assertion that 0:28:05.955 --> 0:28:08.555 nobody has ever hired to work at the Trump rallies, 0:28:08.595 --> 0:28:12.515 given that all the Trump rallies are is merch sales. 0:28:12.715 --> 0:28:16.355 In fact, all the Trump presidency has been is merchandise sales. 0:28:17.075 --> 0:28:20.275 This con man sold t shirts with his own mugshot 0:28:20.315 --> 0:28:23.595 photo on it, and merchandise with pictures of the moment 0:28:23.635 --> 0:28:27.915 he got shot. I mean, consider this just on a 0:28:28.035 --> 0:28:31.555 human level, or whatever it is. He is just on 0:28:31.635 --> 0:28:36.955 a base level. Do you know how stone cold dead 0:28:36.995 --> 0:28:39.075 your soul has to be if you are not bothered 0:28:39.155 --> 0:28:43.675 at all by pictures of the moment you got shot? 0:28:44.875 --> 0:28:48.155 How addicted, how consumed by money do you have to 0:28:48.195 --> 0:28:53.115 be to ignore that memory of hell? That was almost 0:28:53.155 --> 0:28:55.755 my last second on this earth, and I spent it 0:28:55.795 --> 0:29:01.435 in that town. Even that now he tries to make 0:29:01.475 --> 0:29:07.915 a profit off of it. There's nobody there there. What 0:29:07.955 --> 0:29:10.395 can I do with this? Well, if I don't die, 0:29:10.475 --> 0:29:14.115 I can sell pictures of this. But tell me again 0:29:14.115 --> 0:29:16.955 about how nobody gets paid at a Trump rally when 0:29:16.955 --> 0:29:22.075 the ads are all about anti Trump merchandise at the 0:29:22.115 --> 0:29:27.475 anti Trump rally and Marjorie stupid Green, everyone but our winner. 0:29:28.075 --> 0:29:33.755 Worse even than that, the worst Frank Cerravali, who used 0:29:33.755 --> 0:29:36.595 to be a hockey reporter. He worked for the Philadelphia 0:29:36.675 --> 0:29:39.915 Daily News and then for the Canadian Sports TV Network TSN. 0:29:40.195 --> 0:29:43.235 He's now on a hockey website you've never heard of, 0:29:43.755 --> 0:29:46.275 just like I've never heard of, even though I've been 0:29:46.315 --> 0:29:55.155 covering hockey professionally since nineteen seventy six. Somehow, though this 0:29:55.315 --> 0:29:58.955 Frank sara Vali is still the president of the Professional 0:29:58.995 --> 0:30:04.115